MADRID — The fourth Carte Blanche, the Locarno Festival’s pix-in-post showcase, will focus next year on Brazil, highlighting five-to-seven Brazilian movies in post-production seeking completion financing. The announcement was made Monday evening at the Sao Paulo Film Festival by Nadia Dresti, Locarno ‘s head of international, and Andre Sturm, president of Brazilian international film promo org Cinema do Brasil, which will partner Locarno in the organization of next year’s rough-cut competition.
Carte Blanche will unspool during Locarno’s Industry Days, slated for August 9-11, which also include market screenings of the festival’s major section films, an Open Doors co-production meet and a Step In discussion forum. Launched in 2011, Carte Blanche has focused to date on Colombia, Mexico and Chile. As part of this recognition of Latin America’s rapid movie industry and creative growth, Brazil is an obvious — but exciting — choice for 2014. In Latin America, few movie industries have grown so fast, or so strongly, as Brazil’s.
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